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...bonus, to be made public soon, was about $500,000.) Asked at a press conference a few days earlier why he lays so much blame on Toyotas and Nissans for the U.S.-Japan trade deficit, he snapped back with his own questions: "Whadya want me to talk about? Tomato puree? Rutabagas...
Prices for fresh fruit will increase, but the cost of orange juice to U.S. consumers is not likely to rise much. Reason: most of it is made from concentrate imported from Brazil. The cold snap will affect fresh vegetable prices as well. About 60% of Florida's tomato crop was destroyed, and many fields of beans and squash were left brown and lifeless...
...year is about one-fifth the cost of a single F-15." Around midnight, after a full day of work without a dinner break, the peace-loving conferees were supplied with one of war's little horrors: the latest in C rations, featuring ham loaf with beans and tomato sauce...
...keeping with the old motto on its best-known product, "Milk from contented cows," Carnation has grown somewhat complacent in recent years. In more aggressive times it bought the Contadina tomato-products brand and created Friskies pet foods and Coffee-Mate nondairy creamer. But Carnation's last acquisition of any size was the $30 million purchase in 1973 of a company that makes class rings. Since 1980 sales have been flat (1983 revenues: $3.4 billion). Says Dan B. Williams, an analyst with Sutro & Co., a San Francisco investment banking firm: "Some observers think Carnation has been stodgy...
...time of independence: the socialist party of David Ben-Gurion, the first Prime Minister of Israel, and the far more militant Herut Party, founded by Begin. The last election was so bitter that this time both sides signed a sort of clean-campaign pact. The agreement banned tomato-throwing, punching, spitting and any "incitement to violence...